Worn out as everyone else is by this grim, tawdry, sleazy election, I’ve little to say that has not been said and so resort to printing here two recent letters – one, the first, was published in a newspaper in New York and the second was published in The Herald here in Scotland.
1. Dear
Editor,
I see, read, hear a lot from the US liberal left /
centre left and mainstream Democrats about how deluded Republicans are in their
homage to Trump.
May I respectfully suggest, from here in Scotland,
it’s ‘the sensible people’ who seem deluded.
If Republicans cared about Trump being a low-life,
mad, racist, misogynistic con man yada yada yada – he would not have got
elected in 2016.
Here in the UK one of Trump’s many admirers Nigel
Farage – tagged as a racist at his expensive private school by his teachers –
continues to wield influence far outside anything he has earned. His main claim
to fame – apart from his 7x failure to get elected to Parliament, is as one of
the main midwives of Brexit.
Farage is perma-present in all press. As with Trump,
the media have played the dangerous Rantings 4 Ratings game and we’ve all
suffered.
Polls are suggesting a handful of wins for the party
Farage just assumed leadership of – Reform UK. And there is a chance he’ll
finally win a seat in Parliament and possibly take over the Conservative Party.
Do his potential voters know he is a racist? Yes. Do
they know he is a Trump/Putin stooge? Yes. Do they know his ‘I’m one of you’
shtick is total fabrication? Yes. Will that make any difference? NO.
The meek will not inherit the earth because they are
too in the habit of championing their oppressors…
2. Dear
Editor,
BIZARRELY, in this 2024 general election, both Rishi
Sunak and Keir Starmer are frantically ignoring Brexit (apart from as a stick
to beat each other with), Gaza and the current climate cataclysm.
It’s equivalent to a traditional cooked breakfast without bacon/sausage or eggs
or beans.
It’s basically - toast...
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